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Friday, March 25, 2011
I have spent the last couple of weeks just so engrossed in blogs, tv, and other online venues of entertainment that are really pure crap. It made me feel a lot better until I stepped out into the real world and realized that my life is not up to par with the one I see on the screen in front of me. I am faced with a dilemma: either retreat into a safe, controlled place where the inadequacies of my life are being thrown at me with every keystroke, or I can face the fact that life is life and it's hard, but it's nothing I should or am able to run away from. Life is beautiful, messy, and only constant in it's inconsistency.
A lot of things like this have been said about life, and some of them are just prissy people blowing smoke out of their bums, but a lot of the stuff out there are by people who have lived through pain, joy and struggles. They know what they're talking about. The majority of the mantra-reciting smoke-blowing bum-people are youth that haven't lived, and don't have the wisdom to see that what they're trying to say has already been said, and has been said better than the way they put it. Or, as Jessamyn West put it "There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive."And the good stuff is the sweet and skinny from generations ago. All through Proverbs (another great place to find deep, convicting, moving wisdom) respect for elders and opened ears to what they have to say is strongly stressed. The reason is that they have good things to say. For example, they say stuff like "Are you hip to the jive?". And we need this kind of down to earth, simplified, time tested wisdom, not the honey and butter fluff pretentious "thinkers" do now.
I will now embrace a view of life from generations past and chose to either curl up in a ball of inadequacy, or brave the cold world and not only hope, but have faith that there will be sunshine.
A lot of things like this have been said about life, and some of them are just prissy people blowing smoke out of their bums, but a lot of the stuff out there are by people who have lived through pain, joy and struggles. They know what they're talking about. The majority of the mantra-reciting smoke-blowing bum-people are youth that haven't lived, and don't have the wisdom to see that what they're trying to say has already been said, and has been said better than the way they put it. Or, as Jessamyn West put it "There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive."And the good stuff is the sweet and skinny from generations ago. All through Proverbs (another great place to find deep, convicting, moving wisdom) respect for elders and opened ears to what they have to say is strongly stressed. The reason is that they have good things to say. For example, they say stuff like "Are you hip to the jive?". And we need this kind of down to earth, simplified, time tested wisdom, not the honey and butter fluff pretentious "thinkers" do now.
I will now embrace a view of life from generations past and chose to either curl up in a ball of inadequacy, or brave the cold world and not only hope, but have faith that there will be sunshine.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
A Post For The Masses
A wise person once told me “write what you know”. In some ways, I am not going to do that at all. My life has not been a hillside full of heavenly scented marigolds and daffodils. I am not going to pretend that life is easy, it’s not. I just want to point out the best in my life. Will you join me?
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